Device, System, and Method for Tracking Multiple Projectiles
AssigneeTrackman A/S
InventorFredrik TUXEN
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Abstract
A system for tracking multiple projectiles includes a first radar device aimed so that a field of view of the first radar device covers at least a portion of a target area into which projectiles are to be launched from a plurality of launch locations and a processor receiving data from the radar and identifying from the data tracks of a plurality of projectiles. The processor determines for each projectile track identified a specific one of the launch locations from which the projectile was launched and provides to the launch location associated with each projectile data corresponding to a trajectory of the projectile.
Claims21
1-17. (canceled)
A system for tracking multiple sports balls, comprising:
- a first radar device covering at least a first portion of a target volume into which the sports balls are to be launched from a launch location adjacent to the target volume;
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- a processor receiving first radar data from the first radar device and calculating, based on the first radar data, a respective track for each of the sports balls moving through the first portion of the target volume and extrapolating each of the tracks back in time based on the first radar data to identify a launch area within the launch location from which each of the sports balls moving through the first portion of the target volume was launched.
A system for tracking multiple sports balls, comprising:
- a first radar device covering at least a first portion of a target volume into which the sports balls are to be launched from a launch location adjacent to the target volume;
- a second radar covering at least a second portion of a target volume into which the sports balls are to be launched from the launch location, wherein the second portion of the target volume includes an overlap portion of the target volume that forms part of the first portion of the target volume;
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- a processor receiving first radar data from the first radar device and second radar data from the second radar device and calculating, based on the first and second radar data, a respective track for each of the sports balls moving through at least one of the first and second portions of the target volume to identify a launch area within the launch location from which each of the sports balls corresponding to the first and second radar data was launched,
- wherein the processor is configured to analyze data from the first and second radar devices to identify a first track of a first one of the sports balls calculated based on the first radar data as forming part of a second track calculated based on the second radar data and to combine the first and second tracks to generate a combined track representing a flight the first sports ball through the first and second portions of the target volume.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.